# Back spinal fusion (no major complications) in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `460`. Prices for this code at 12 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/back-spinal-fusion-no-major-complications

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical Without Mcc

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 6 publish a facility charge; 6 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $6,294 |
| Typical | $35,143 |
| Dearest tenth | $119,788 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 19-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 91 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 93 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 91 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 92 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | $18,075 | $18,075 | not mentioned | not published | $3,500 | $32,649 | 2 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE (19.7 mi) | 1/5 | $35,143 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $32,244 | $49,675 | 15 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $112,788 | $112,788 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 7 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $112,788 | $112,788 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 7 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $112,788 | $112,788 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 7 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $120,566 | $120,566 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 6 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $120,566 | $120,566 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 6 |

## Others in inpatient stays (drg)

- [Hip or knee replacement (no major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hip-or-knee-replacement-no-major-complications) -- 85 hospitals, typically $17,003
- [Uterus or ovary surgery, non-cancer (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/uterus-or-ovary-surgery-non-cancer-no-complications) -- 84 hospitals, typically $11,778
- [Neck spinal fusion (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neck-spinal-fusion-no-complications) -- 80 hospitals, typically $21,105
- [Heart valve surgery with cardiac catheterisation (with major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/heart-valve-surgery-with-cardiac-catheterisation-with-major) -- 77 hospitals, typically $76,817

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-01-01 to 2026-04-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.